Another vehicle has caught fire at Adiewoso, a community in the Ahanta West Municipality of the Western Region. The sad incident happened in the early hours of Friday, March 25. An eyewitness told the host of Omanbapa morning show on Connect FM, Nhyiraba Paa Kwesi Simpson, that the vehicle, a Rhino truck, was heading …
Read More »Asemase accident: 9 burnt bodies identified by relatives
Nine out of fourteen passengers who got burnt in a car accident at Asemase on the Cape Coast to Takoradi road on Tuesday have been identified by their relatives at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital. Authorities of the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital on Thursday March 24 allowed people to identify the …
Read More »US court throws out Kennedy Agyapong’s $9.5m defamation suit against Kevin Taylor
A defamation suit by the Member of Parliament for Assin Central against US-based Ghanaian journalist, Kevin Taylor and his media company, Loud silence, has been dismissed by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. By the court, Kennedy Agyapong failed to truly prove that the comments made by Mr Taylor …
Read More »Akufo-Addo to deliver SONA on March 30
President Akufo Addo is finally set to deliver the State of the Nation Address in Parliament next week Wednesday. This is according to Habib Iddrisu, who is the Deputy Majority Whip. The President was scheduled to appear before the House last three weeks but that constitutional obligation was postponed indefinitely, a situation …
Read More »Catholic Church losses 3% of membership to other churches – President of Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Most Reverend Philip Naameh, President of the Ghana Catholic Bishops’ Conference (GCBC) and Metropolitan Archbishop of Tamale, has bemoaned the drop in membership of the Catholic faith by 3 percent as recorded by the 2020 Population and Housing Census. According to him, the members have moved into the Pentecostal and …
Read More »Buhari meets Akufo-Addo ahead of Ghana-Nigeria clash
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has met his Nigerian counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the 2022 World Cup qualifier between the two countries. Photos shared by the official handle of the Nigerian government on social media indicate that the two leaders held meetings on Thursday, March 24, 2022. The purpose of the meeting was …
Read More »No more foreign travels for gov’t officials, unless critical – Ofori- Atta
The ban on foreign travel by government officials forms part of measures by the government to enable the country’s economy to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Government officials will therefore travel only when necessary. Speaking at a Press Conference held on Thursday, 24 March 2022, in Accra, the Finance Minister …
Read More »Gov’t bans importation of V8s by public sector
The government has placed a ban on the importation of SUVs by public offices. This forms part of measures adopted by the Akufo-Addo administration to address the current economic challenges facing the country. Speaking at a press conference on Thursday, 24 November 2022, to announce measures adopted by the government …
Read More »PHOTOS: Passengers escape unhurt after steel bridge over river collapses
A steel bridge across the Gugura River which connects Navio and Tazika communities to Paga, in the Upper East Region has collapsed. It collapsed Wednesday morning when a heavy-duty DAF truck carrying logs was crossing it. The truck with registration number AW 8894-12 was heading towards Paga from Tangasougo in …
Read More »Asemasa accident: Two families fight over one body; hospital demands DNA test
Authorities at the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital have resolved to conduct a DNA test on six female bodies that were part of the Tuesday, March 22 accident at Asemasa as one body has become a source of contention. A total of nine out of the 14 burnt bodies from the …
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